"work week" preferences do nothing - no effect

That works fine here cannot reproduce it, could you please check with a new user created there? thanks.

Not working for me too...
What debug log can help?

Same problem.

...and result

I have the same problem since update to Maverick.

Additional information: the problem (only 5 days displayed even if 7-days work week specified in preferences) happens only if the preferences indicate that the week starts a saturday, sunday or monday. The problem does not happen if the preferences indicate that the week starts a tuesday, wednesday; thursday or friday. Rather funny.

I also have that problem since updating to Maverick, which is very annoying. As a musician, weekends are workdays for me so I'd like to see the the whole week.

In the "week" view, also like the reporter says, the "non-work-days" are greyed out, but in the "Work week" view, they aren't, so they are not using the same data !?!?

I can also see the effect that Alain A Servais describes. It actually makes complete sense: When the assumed non-work-days (Sat/Sun) are at the edges, they are not displayed. If they appear in the middle of the work week, they are displayed, greyed-out though.

I tested evolution 2.28.3-0 (Ubuntu Lucid), 2.30.3-1 (Ubuntu Maverick), 2.30.3-1.fc13 (Fedora 13) and 2.32.0-2-fc14 (pre-release of fedora 14) - only Ubuntu Maverick is affected!

Closing preferences window or restarting Evolution does not help. In my Maverick the Work Days are always Mon-Fri, and non-gray part of day begins always at 9:00am and ends at 5:00pm.

Work week preference is not the only one not responding for me. Time format preferences do not respond. Neither does "compress weekends in month view" (I do not want them compressed). I'm sure others are included as well.

@Derrick: I fully agree, evolution needs more attention. I had started reporting all these issues in one bug, which ended in a mess, because different distros and Ubuntu versions are affected or not. So I split all up into 5 separate reports, with upstream links where it is appropriate. For details see comment 5 of https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/661444

What exactly do you mean by "Time format preferences do not respond"? If this is a reproducible problem we should open another bug. I can do this, I have different Ubuntus and Fedoras here ready to test in a VirtualBox.

Seems similar to this bug, https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=623029

The corresponding commit is http://git.gnome.org/browse/evolution/commit/?h=gnome-2-32&id=8cc61ce38cfdab52e9f7705b7852202f0773b6d5

Didier, could you have a go to this one? It seems it's due to the une patch you added last cycle

Sorry for the delay Oliver. By "time format" preferences I mean the 12/24hr option. Even though I have 12 hour selected, I still only have the 24 hour format to work with when making a new appointment.

@Didier

I would like to test the patch, but it doesn't seem to be uploaded to -proposed.

It's uploaded but not yet approved. You will see a message here once it will be approved.

I too cannot uncompress weekends in Ubuntu 10.10 using Evolution 2.30.3.

Will this patch be included in the normal updates for Ubuntu when it is approved?

Bob.

the patch will go in normal updates once tested yes

Accepted evolution into maverick-proposed, the package will build now and be available in a few hours. Please test and give feedback here. See https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Testing/EnableProposed for documentation how to enable and use -proposed. Thank you in advance!

> Please test and give feedback here.

The best news of today for me! Seems like everything works fine: show 7 days, i can change “day begins” and “ends”.
Thank you, guys!!

Works fine for me, too. Thank you!!

Me too. Thanks.

Just a hint for anyone trying this out without enabling the whole of maverick-proposed: Initially I installed the new "evolution" and "evolution-common" packages, which didn't fix it. I then also upgraded "libevolution" and "evolution-plugins" and now it works.

All the preferences I use seem to work now, except one. "Compress weekends in month view" on the "Display tab" still does nothing. It still always shows the weekends compressed. I want them uncompressed.

@Derrick: The problem with the compressed weekends is tracked as bug 643910. Please subscribe to that bug to get information about the progress or workarounds.

All good.
Thanks!

I tested the maverick-proposed and confirm that the work week features all work now.

But if I switch to work week view, then set Mon,Tue,Thu,Fri as work days and then change the beginning of the week very fast (with the mouse wheel) then evolution crashes with a segfault! I don't know yet if this has to do with this bugfix or if it's a new bug. At least in Lucid I was not able to reproduce this crash. Perhaps this crash occurs only in VirtualBox. I'll test it on bare metal soon and will comment again...

The crash I mentioned in my previous comment does not occur on a real machine (with a radeon graphics adapter). So it's probably a new bug that only shows in a VirtualBox - I'll have an eye on it.

In short: for me too this bug (the work week prefs bug) is solved - thanks!

This bug was fixed in the package evolution - 2.30.3-1ubuntu7.1

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evolution (2.30.3-1ubuntu7.1) maverick-proposed; urgency=low

  * debian/patches/89_express.patch:
    - listen to gconf for calendar view to pick changed settings from the
      calendar preference dialog (LP: #663787, #649543)
  * debian/rules:
    - remove --disable-pst-import (wrongly kept during latest merge)
      as we want the plugin to import outlook pst file (LP: #670747)
 -- Didier Roche <email address hidden> Wed, 03 Nov 2010 16:37:10 +0100

Copied to natty as well.